Dr. Roopa Seshadri is a Senior Consultant in Neuro & Stroke Intervention and Endovascular Intervention/Surgery at Sakra, specializing as an Interventional Neuroradiologist. She does minimally invasive vascular interventions in the brain for stroke and brain bleeds. She is also experienced in minimally invasive vascular interventions in the body and limbs.
Her academic career has been brilliant and has all been through general merit.
- MBBS- Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, B.G Nagara, secured distinction
- MD- Radiology from St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore. Secured second rank in state
- DM- Neuroradiology (Neuroimaging and Interventional neuroradiology) from NIMHANS, Bangalore.
After NIMHANS, she was faculty at SRMC (Sri Ramachandra Medical College), Porur in the Dept. Neurointervention & Peripheral Intervention), where she honed her skills in advanced Neurointervention and learnt Peripheral Intervention as well.
After working for 4 years in Chennai, she returned to Mysore and joined JSS where she was the Stroke lead. She introduced complete stroke care for the first time in Mysuru at JSS and made JSS the first Stroke-ready hospital in Mysuru. She was highly successful in her endeavours of introducing IV thrombolysis, minimally invasive neurovascular interventions for stroke and brain bleeds, and their management.
During this time, she learnt from world-renowned leaders in her field –
- Prof. Rene Chapot, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Essen, Germany
- Prof. Jacques Moret & Prof. Laurent Spell, Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
She underwent a Full Immersion Course (F.I.C) in Stroke and INR with Prof. Vincent Costalat in Montpellier CHU, France. She then pursued a European Diploma in Interventional Neuroradiology from the European Board of Neuroradiology. She got an opportunity to work with Prof, Charbel Mounayer, CHU Dupuytren 1, University Hospital in Limoges, France (2021-2022) where she got a fellowship in Neuro and Stroke Intervention as well.
Her mentors in India have been Prof. A.K Gupta, Prof. Mathew Cherian, Prof. Santhosh Joseph, and Dr. Uday Limaye.
She has rich and varied experience in minimally invasive vascular Neuro interventions and stroke, and also in body and peripheral interventions. She has won prizes at national and best presentation awards in the international arena.
Her immediate past stint was at Fortis Hospital, Bannerghatta. She was a visiting consultant in the rest of the Fortis hospitals in Bangalore.
She is well-known in this field nationally & internationally and has to her credited with many publications & International presentations.
Minimally Invasive Neuro-Vascular Interventions - Brain, Head & Neck, Back
(Pin-Hole Surgery/ Interventional Therapeutic Neuroradiology/ Endovascular Surgery)
Stroke (Brain Attack/ Paralysis : sudden loss of function of hand, leg, vision, speech) – Complete management
- Revascularization procedures (Mechanical Thrombectomy)– treatment revolutionizing stroke management
- Carotid Stenosis, Vertebral Stenosis (recurrent cause of stroke) – Angioplasty & stenting
- ICAD (recurrent cause of stroke) – Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease – Angioplasty & stenting
- Dissection
- Infection
Aneurysm (Bubble in the brain) – Brain Bleed (SAH- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, IVH- Intra-Ventricular Hemorrhage)
- Pin-hole Treatment with coiling or stenting/FD – procedure without cutting the skull
- Presents with headache, neck pain, loss of consciousness
IIH (Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension) – Venous stenting with Pin-Hole procedure
- Headache, blurring of vision, double vision, abnormal sound in the ear, vision loss
- AVM (Arterio-Venous Malformation) & AVF (Arterio-Venous Fistula)
- Brain bleed, headache, abnormal sound in the ears, neck pain
- Bulging red eyes
- Tumours
- Vascular Embolization of tumours like meningioma, etc.,
- Bleed in the layers of brain
- SDH (Sub Dural Haemorrhage) - embolization
- Vascular problems in the head, neck and back
- Headache, backache/ back pain
- Weakness of legs
- Pulsatile mass
- Epistaxis (bleeding from nose)- embolization
- Intracranial hypotension – CSF loss
- Vein of Galen Malformations- Pediatric
